At a Glance

Two boys from different backgrounds become friends for life in Italy in the 1900s.

Detailed Information

It is turn-off-the-century Italy, and in the summer of 1900 two children are born in the rich agricultural countryside in the region of Emilia. Olmo Dalco (Gerad Depardieu) is the bastard son of a family of farmworkers and Alfredo Berlinghieri (Robert De Niro) is heir to a wealthy family of landowners. Although they come from two different worlds, a friendship develops that will endure the sweeping changes of the 20th century.

This epic directed by Bernado Bertolucci details the lives of these two men from childhood through old age - their families, their loves, their personal beliefs - against the backdrop of political upheaval and world war.